Also, ThinkComposer was included in the very extensive catalog (the “master list”) of visual tools that mind-mapping.org exposes, which is a great source of information of the market tools and their way of help visual thinkers. Great!

A new version of ThinkComposer (1.3) is available! It can generate text files, either for code generation or custom information export, based on templates using the Liquid markup language. So, the precise knowledge stored in Composition documents can be consumed from external sources. Lets take a look.

Suppose you want to export the information content of the next Composition diagram…

Then, to achieve that formatted result file, you can use the Output-Template editor (accessed thru ‘Domain’ -> ‘Edit Domain’-> ‘Output-Templates’ -> ‘Concept base templates…’) as shown in the next screenshot:

A problem while working with 2D graphics, in the style of big concept maps or other kind of diagrams, is that when the matter is complex, they can become a problem to navigate and edit them like in the next very cluttered map:

This is unavoidable if you need to show (or print) the map as single unit.

However, with the help of software, you can divide the map in hierarchically contained sub-maps, spanning multiple levels. Consider the next diagram, made with ThinkComposer, representing a simple aircraft design as an advanced concept map:

With this multilevel capability you can “compose” (or decompose) your ideas to any extent into a single document. Plus, notice that you can still connect nodes, not within the same view (map/diagram), by using Shortcuts that you can point/click to easily navigate to the original source.